President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin.

President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin.

  • TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Maybe not nefarious, since it’s been a public idea for decades. He does like to put forward those ideas like he’s the one that thought of it. This one’s a net positive so let’s just let him play with the unplugged controller on this one.

    Unless it turns out he and/or Elon bought something with copper. Which wouldn’t surprise me.